agreed. i have a windows phone 7 device and will upgrade to a windows phone 8 device in October. i have windows 8 release preview on my laptop and will also install it on my gaming pc. and i will buy an xbox 360 from craigslist for the sake of having beautiful metro flavored media consumption on my tv.
but i am sorry to say i almost completely phased out of video games last year. now i am just the tech nerd, and hate to admit it, occasional casual gamer.
yeah what a teenager i have turned out to be in the past 3 years..

This is ground control to major Tom, you've really made the grade. And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

Just beat Gears of War 1 yesterday (beat it on Causual...was pretty easy, but I'm still new at this kind of game anyway! ).
Started 2 but I think the casual here is way too easy. May start over on Normal at least. Wanting to kind of get through it to get to 3 though since it's the newest one....
What still sucks is I know I'd get destroyed online, so bad that it wouldn't even be enjoyable. I would really like some good online multiplayer (I have always been a first party Nintendo fan above all other games, so I don't see much for online interaction), but too many people are super hard core about using whatever cheap shots and cheats they can to win.

And a few others that haven't been confrimed to be xbox live or not.
Armed
Cut the rope

Microsoft seems to be pushing development of Multiple versions of XBLA games like skulls of tthe shogun

For the most part XBLA games can be the same on both Windows 8 and Xbox with a stripped down mobile style game n Windows Phone depending on how graphically intense the other versions are or just depending o.n what the dev wants to do.

Played through Gears 1 and 2 over the past week or two, and this morning I beat Act 3 in Gears 3...won't go into spoilers, but wow...
I'm really enjoying the story to these.
Want to play some multiplayer online but I know I'll get my butt kicked. I wonder if I should get the season pass...

Kotaku is so freaking useless. So yesterday they post a headline about one of microsofts new studios MS Vancouver being shut down. In fact it seems that isn't the case and of the near 100 people there 35 people were let go as the projects they were working on (Microsoft flight and Project Columbia a Seasme street Tv style project) were cancelled in favor of putting more resources to the next gen core game the studio was working on.

And now today They are reporting the opening of MS London to work on casuel and free to play games. Hopefully those people who were let go are moved their or at the soho studio since project Columbia projects are the focus there and pro ably why vancobers project was cancled because it makes no sense for a core studio to waste resources on a project she. You have a specialized studio for that product style.

WAT!

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Also got into the Fall 2012 dashboard beta. Though I find it odd that the beta sign up was only for a couple of hours whereas it usually runs a few days. Guess the smaller userbase will keep talk down.

I've noticed in XBoX live that XBLA tittles are listed with price in MS points, while the rest are listed in €. Is there any reason for that? Any game purchased there is directly downloaded from there?